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The integers 1, 2««, 40 are written on a black board. The following operation is then repeated 39
times: In each repetition, any two numbers, say R and , currently on the blackboard are erased and
a new number R

 1 is written. What will be the number left on the board at the end?Ê
Ê
(1) 820 (2) 821 (3) 781 (4) 819 (5) 780Ê
Ê

2. Let ë( ) = R 2 + +
, where R, and
are certain constants and R ÿ 0. It is known that ë(5) = 3ë(2)
and that 3 is a root of ë( ) = 0„What is the other root of ë( ) = 0?Ê
Ê
(1) 7 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 6 (5) Cannot be determined
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Ê
The figure below shows the plan of a town. The streets are at right angles to each other. A rectangular
park (P) is situated inside the town with a diagonal road running through it. There is also a prohibited
region (D) in the town.Ê

Ê

reelam rides her bicycle form her house at ‘ to her office at , taking the shortest path. Then the
number of possible shortest paths that she can choose is.Ê
Ê
(1) 60 (2) 75 (3) 45 (4) 90 (5) 72Ê
Ê


reelam rides her bicycle from her house at ‘ to her club at
, via B taking the shortest path. Then the
number of possible shortest paths that she can choose isÊ
Ê
(1) 1170 (2) 630 (3) 792 (4) 1200 (5) 936Ê
Ê
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Consider a square ABCD with midpoints E, F, G, H of AB, BC, CD and DA respectively. Let L denote
the line passing through F and H. Consider points P and Q, on L and inside ABCD, such that the
angles APD and BQC both equal 120o. What is the ratio of the area of ABQCDP to the remaining
area inside ABCD?Ê
Ê
(1) (2) 2 + (3) (4) 1+ (5)

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Ê
Mark (1) if Q can be answered from A alone but not from B alone.Ê
Mark (2) if Q can be answered from B alone but not from A alone.Ê
Mark (3) if Q can be answered from A alone as well as from B alone.Ê
Mark (4) if Q can be answered A and B together but not from any of them alone.Ê
Mark (5) if Q cannot be answered even from A and B together.Ê
Ê
In a single elimination tournament, any player is eliminated with a single loss. The tournament is played
in multiple rounds subject to the following rules:Ê
(a) If the number of players, say , in any round is even, the players are grouped in to /2 pairs. The
players in each pair play a match against each other and the winner moves on to the next round.Ê
(b) If the number of players, say , in any round is odd, then one of them is given a bye, that is, he
automatically moves on to the next round. The remaining (-1) players are grouped into (-1)/2 pairs.
The players in each pair play a match against each other and the winner moves on to the next round.
ro player gets more than one bye in the entire tournament.Ê
Thus, if  is even, then /2 players move on to the next round while if  is odd, then (+1)/2 players move
on to the next round. The process is continued till the final round, which obviously is played between two
players. The winner in the final round is the champion of the tournament.Ê
Ê

Q: What is the number of matches played by the champion?Ê
A: The entry list for the tournament consists of 83 playersÊ
B: The champion received one bye.Ê
Ê

Q: If the number of players, say , in the first round was between 65 and 128, then what is the exact
value of ?Ê
A: Exactly one player received a bye in the entire tournamentÊ
B: One player received a bye while moving on to the fourth round from the third round.

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Consider a right circular cone of base radius 4 cm and height 10 cm. A cylinder is to be placed inside
the cone with one of the flat surfaces resting on the base of the cone. Find the largest possible total
surface area (in sq. cm) of the cylinder.Ê
Ê

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Ê

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   Answer the following questions based on the information given below:Ê
Ê
The bar chart below shows the revenue received, in million US Dollars (USD), from subscribers to a
particular Internet service. The data covers the period 2003 to 2007 for the United States (US)
and Europe. The bar chart also shows the estimated revenues from subscription to this service for the
period 2008 to 2010.Ê
Ê
 Ê

The difference between the estimated subscription in Europe in 2008 and what it would have been if it
were computed using the percentage growth rate of 2007 (over 2006), is closest to:Ê
Ê
(1) 50 (2) 80 (3) 20 (4) 10 (5) 0Ê
Ê

In 2003, sixty percent of subscribers in Europe were men. Given that women subscribers increase at
the rate of 10 percent per annum and men at the rate of 5 percent per annum, what is the approximate
percentage growth of subscribers between 2003 and 2010 in Europe? That subscriptions prices and
volatile and may change each year.Ê
Ê
(1) 62 (2) 15 (3) 78 (4) 84 (5) 50Ê

Consider the annual percent change in the gap between subscription revenue in the US and Europe.
What is the year in which the absolute value of this change is the highest?Ê
Ê
(1) 03-04 (2) 05-06 (3) 06-07 (4) 08-09 (5) 09-10Ê

While the subscription in Europe has been given growing steadily towards that of the US, the growth
rate in Europe seems to be declining. Which of the following is closest to the percent change in
growth rate of 2007 (over 2006) relative to the growth rate of 2005 (over 2004)?Ê
Ê
(1) 17 (2) 20 (3) 35 (4) 60 (5) 100Ê
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    Answer the following questions based on the information given below:Ê
Ê
Abdul, Bikram and Chetan are three professional traders who trade in shares of a company XYZ ltd.
Abdul follows the strategy of buying at the opening of the day at 10 am and selling the whole lot at the
close of the day at 3 pm. Bikram follows the strategy of buying at hourly intervals: 10 am, 11 am, 12
noon, 1 pm and 2 pm, and selling the whole lot at the close of the day. Further, he buys an equal number
of shares in each purchase. Chetan follows a similar pattern as Bikram but his strategy is somewhat
different. Chetan¶s total investment amount is divided equally among his purchases. The profit or loss
made by each investor is the difference between the sale value at the close of the day less the investment
in purchase. The ³return´ for each investor is defined as the ratio of the profit or loss to the investment
amount expressed as a percentage.Ê
Ê

On a day of fluctuating market prices, the share price of XYZ Ltd, ends with a gain, i.e. it is higher at
the close of the day compared to the opening value. Which trader got the maximum return on that
day?Ê
Ê
(1) Bikram (2) Chetan (3) Abdul (4) Bikram or Chetan (5) Cannot be determinedÊ
Ê

Ê

Which one of the following statements is always true?Ê
Ê
(1) Abdul will not be the one with the minimum returnÊ
(2) Return for Chetan will be higher than that of BikramÊ
(3) Return for Bikram will be higher than that of ChetanÊ
(4) Return for Chetan cannot be higher than that of AbdulÊ
(5) rone of the aboveÊ
Ê
Ê

º
On a µboom¶ day the share price of XYZ Ltd. keeps rising throughout the day and peaks at the close
of the day. Which trader got the minimum return on that day?Ê
Ê
(1) Bikram (2) Chetan (3) Abdul (4) Abdul or Chetan (5) Cannot be determinedÊ
Ê

  
 
    Ê

One day, two other traders, Dane and Emily joined Abdul, Bikram and Chetan for trading in the shares of
XYZ Ltd. Dane followed a strategy of buying equal numbers of shares at 10 am, 11 am, and 12 noon, and
selling the same numbers at 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm. Emily, on the other hand, followed the strategy of
buying shares using all her money at 10 am and selling all of them at 12 noon and again buying the shares
for all the money at 1pm and again selling all of them at the close of the day at 3 pm. At the close of the
day the following was observed:Ê
Ê
i. Abdul lost money in the transactions.Ê
ii. Both Dane and Emily made profitsÊ
iii. There was an increase in share price during the closing hour compared to the price at 2 pmÊ
i. Share price at 12 noon was lower that the opening price.Ê
Ê

Share price was at its highest atÊ
Ê
(1) 10 am (2) 11 am (3) 12 noon (4) 1 pm (5) Cannot be determinedÊ
Ê

Which of the following is necessarily false?Ê
Ê
(1) Share price was at its lowest at 2 pm.Ê
(2) Share price was at its lowest at 11 am.Ê
 (3) Share price at 1 pm was higher than the share price at 2 pmÊ
(4) Share price at 1 pm was higher than the share price at 12 noonÊ
(5) rone of the aboveÊ
Ê
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    Π Answer the following questions based on the information given
below:Ê
Ê
There are 100 employees in an organization across five departments. The following table gives the
department-wise distribution of average age, average basic pay and allowances. The gross pay of an
employee is the sum of his/her basic pay and allowances.Ê
Ê
rumber of AverageÊ Average BasicÊ AllowancesÊ
DepartmentÊ
EmployeesÊ Age (Years)Ê Pay(Rs.)Ê (% of Basic Pay)Ê
HRÊ 5Ê 45Ê 5000Ê 70Ê
MarketingÊ 30Ê 35Ê 6000Ê 80Ê
FinanceÊ 20Ê 30Ê 6500Ê 60Ê
Business DevelopmentÊ 35Ê 42Ê 7500Ê 75Ê
MaintenanceÊ 10Ê 35Ê 5500Ê 50Ê
Ê
There are limited numbers of employees considered for transfer/promotion across departments. Whenever
a person is transferred/promoted form a department of lower average age to a department of higher
average age, he/she will get an additional allowance of 10% of basic pay over and above his/her
current/allowance. There will not be any change is pay structure if a person is transferred/promoted from
a department with higher average age to a department with lower average age.Ê
Ê
Questions below are independent of each other.Ê
Ê
Œ
What is the approximate percentage change in the average gross pay of the HR department due to
transfer of a 40-yeaar old person with basic pay of Rs.8000 from the marketing department?Ê
Ê
(1) 9% (2) 11% (3) 13% (4) 15% (5) 17%Ê
Ê

Ê

There was a mutual transfer of an employee between Marketing and Finance departments and transfer
of one employee from Marketing to HR. As a result, the average age of Finance department increased
by one year and that of Marketing department remained the same. What is the new average age of HR
department?Ê
Ê
(1) 30 (2) 35 (3) 40 (4) 45 (5) Cannot be
determinedÊ
Ê


If two employees (each with a basic pay of Rs.6000) are transferred from Maintenance department to
HR department and one person (with a basic pay of Rs.8000) was transferred from Marketing
department to HR department, what will be the percentage change in average basic pay of HR
department?Ê
Ê
(1) 10.5% (2) 12.5% (3) 15% (4) 30% (5) 40%Ê
Ê
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    In each question, there are five sentences. Each sentence has a pair of
words that are italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted words, select the most
appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate
the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given,
choose the 

one.Ê
Ê

Anita wore a beautiful broach (A)/brooch(B) on the lapel of her jacket.Ê
If you want to complain the amenities in your neighbourhood, please meet
your councilor(A)/counselor(B).Ê






I would like you advice(A)/advise(B) on which job I should chooseÊ
The last scene provided a climatic(A)/climatic(B) ending to the film.Ê
Jeans that ëlair(A)/ëlare(B) at the bottom are in fashion these days.Ê
Ê
(1) BABAA (2) BABAB (3) BAAAB (4) ABABA (5) BAABAÊ
Ê

Ê

The cake had lots of currents(A)/currants(B) and nuts in it.Ê
If you engage in such exceptional (A)/exceptionable(B) behaviour, I will be forced to punish you.Ê
He has the same capacity as an adult to consent(A)/assent(B) to surgical treatment.Ê
The minister is obliged(A)/compelled(B)
to report regularly to a parliamentary board.Ê
His analysis of the situation is far too sanguine(A)/genuine(B)Ê
Ê
(1) BBABA (2) BBAAA (3) BBBBA (4) ABBBA (5) BABABÊ
Ê


She managed to bite back the ironic(A)/caustic(B) retort on the tip of her tongue.Ê
He gave an impassioned and valid(A)/cogent (B)plea for judicial reform.Ê
I am not adverse(A)/averse(B) to helping outÊ
The coupe(A)/ coup(B) broke away as the train climbed the hill.Ê
They heard the bells peeling(A)/pealing(B) far and wide.Ê
Ê
(1) BBABA (2) BBBAB (3) BAABB (4) ABBAA (5) BBBBAÊ
Ê


We were not successful in deëusing(A)/diëëusing(B) the Guru¶s ideas.Ê
The students baited(A)/bated(B) the instructor with irrelevant questions.Ê
The hoard(A)/horde(B) rushed into the campus.Ê
The prisoner¶s interment(A)/ internment(B) came to an end with his early release.Ê
The hockey team could not deal with his unsociable(A)/unsocial(B) tendenciesÊ
Ê
(1) BABBA (2) BBABB (3) BABAA (4) ABBAB (5) AABBAÊ
Ê

Ê
º
 Ê
Ê
(1) The police fired a round of tear gas shellsÊ
(2) The shop is located round the cornerÊ
(3) We took a ride on the merry-go-round.Ê
(4) The doctor is on a hospital round.Ê
 (5) I shall proceed further only after you come round to admitting it.Ê
Ê


Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand,
there is his __________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment,
including __________.Ê
Ê
(1) constitutional; weather (2) congenital; education (3) personal;
climate Ê
(4) economic; learning (5) genetic; pedagogyÊ
Ê
Ê

Given the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the question of what is µWestern¶ and what is
µEastern¶ (or µIndian¶) is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more dialectical
terms. The diagnosis of a thought as µpurely Western¶ or µpurely Indian¶ can be very illusory.Ê
Ê
(1) Thoughts are not the kind of things that can be easily categorized.Ê
(2) Though µoccidentalism¶ and µorientalism¶ as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.Ê
(3) µEast is East and West is West¶ has been a discredited notion for a long time now.Ê
(4) Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable.Ê
(5) The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which µpurity¶ happens easily.Ê
Ê
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   Π  The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions.
Choose the 

answer to each question.Ê
Ê
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Ê
Ê
 hen I was little, children were bought two kinds of ice cream, sold from those white wagons with
canopies made of silvery metal: either the two-cent cone or the four-cent ice-cream pie. The two-cent
cone was very small, in fact it could fit comfortably into a child¶s hand, and it was made by taking the
ice-cream from its container with a special scoop and piling it on the cone. Granny always suggested I eat
only a part of the cone, then throw away the pointed end, because it had been touched by the vendor¶s
hand (thought that was the best part, nice and crunchy, and it was regularly eaten in secret, after a
pretence of discarding it).
Ê
The four-cent pie was made by a special little machine, also silvery, which pressed two disks of sweet
biscuit against a cylindrical section of ice cream. First you had to thrust your tongue into the gap between
the biscuits until it touched the central nucleus of ice cream; then, gradually, you ate the whole thing, the
biscuit surfaces softening as they became soaked in creamy nectar. Granny had no advice to give here: in
theory the pies had been touched only by the machine; in practice, the vendor had held them in his hand
while giving them to us, but it was impossible to isolate the contaminated area.Ê
Ê
I was fascinated, however, by some of my peers, whose parents bought them not a four-cent pie but two
two-cent cones. These privileged children advanced proudly with one cone in their right hand and one in
their left; and expertly moving their head from side to side, they licked first one, then the other. This liturgy
seemed to me so sumptuously enviable, that many times I asked to be allowed to celebrate it. In vain. My
elders were inflexible; a four-cent ice, yes; but two two-cent ones, absolutely no.
Ê
As anyone can see, neither mathematics nor economy nor dietetics justified this refusal. ror did hygiene,
assuming that in due course the tips of both cones were discarded. The pathetic and obviously
mendacious, justification was that a body concerned with turning his eyes from one cone to the other was
more inclined to stumble over stones, steps, or cracks in the pavement. I dimly sensed that there was
another secret justification, cruelly pedagogical, but I was unable to grasp it.Ê
Ê
Today, citizen and victim of a consumer society, a civilization of excess and waste (which the society of
the thirties was not), I realize that those dear and now departed elders were right. Two two-cent cones
instead of one at four cents did not signify squandering, economically speaking, but symbolically they
surely did. It was for this precise reason, that I yearned for them: because two ice creams suggested
excess. And this was precisely why they were denied to me: because they looked indecent, an insult to
poverty, a display of fictitious privilege, a boast of wealth. Only spoiled children ate two cones at once,
those children who in fairy tales were rightly punished, as Pinocchio was when he rejected the skin and
the stalk. And parents who encouraged this weakness, appropriate to little parvenus, were bringing up
their children in the foolish theatre of ³I¶d like to but I can¶t´. They were preparing them to turn up at
tourist-class check-in with a fake Gucci bag bought from a street peddler on the beach at Rimini.Ê
Ê
rowadays the moralist risks seeming at odds with morality, in a world where the consumer civilization
now wants even adults to be spoiled, and promises them always something more, from the wristwatch in
the box of the detergent to the bonus bangle sheathed, with the magazine it accompanies, in a plastic
envelope. Like the parents of those ambidextrous gluttons I so envied, the consumer civilization pretends
to give more, but actually gives, for four cents, what is worth four cents. You will throwaway the old
transistor radio to purchase the new one, that boasts an alarm clock as well, but some inexplicable defect
in the mechanism will guarantee that the radio lasts only a year. The new cheap car will have leather
seats, double side mirrors adjustable from inside, and a paneled dashboard, but it will not last nearly so
long as the glorious old Fiat 500, which, even when it broke down, could be started again with a kick.Ê
Ê
The morality of the old days made Spartans of us all, while today¶s morality wants all of us to be
Sybarites.Ê
Ê
Œ
Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?Ê
Ê
(1) Today¶s society is more extravagant than the society of the 1930s.Ê
(2) The act of eating two ice cream cones is akin to a ceremonial process.Ê
(3) Elders rightly suggested that a boy turning eyes from one cone to the other was more likely to fallÊ
(4) Despite seeming to promise more, the consumer civilization gives away exactly what the thing is
worth.Ê
(5) The consumer civilization attempts to spoil children and adults alike.Ê

In the passage, the phrase ³little parvenus´ refers toÊ
Ê
(1) naughty midgets. (2) old hags. (3) arrogant people. (4) young
upstarts. (5) foolish kids.Ê
Ê

The author pined for two two-cent instead of one four-cent pie becauseÊ
Ê
(1) it made dietetic sense. (2) it suggested intemperance. (3) it was more
fun. Ê
(4) it had a visual appeal. (5) he was a glutton.Ê
Ê


What does the author mean by ³nowadays the moralist risks seeming at odds with morality´?Ê
Ê
(1) The moralists of yesterday have become immoral today.Ê
 (2) The concept of morality has changed over the years.Ê
(3) Consumerism is amoral.Ê
(4) The risks associated with immorality have gone up.Ê
(5) The purist¶s view of morality is fast becoming popular.Ê
Ê
Ê


According to the author, the justification for refusal to let him eat two cones was plausiblyÊ
Ê
(1) didactic. (2) dietetic. (3) dialectic. (4) diatonic. (5) diastolic.Ê
Ê
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    Π  The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions.
Choose the 

answer to each question.Ê
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‘ remarkable aspect of art of the present century is the range of concepts and ideologies which it
embodies. It is almost tempting to see a pattern emerging within the art field ± or alternatively imposed
upon it R
  ± similar to that which exists under the umbrella of science where the general term
covers a whole range of separate, though interconnecting, activities. Any parallelism is however ± in this
instance at least ± misleading. A scientific discipline develops systematically once its bare tenets have
been established, named and categorized as conventions. Many of the concepts of modern art, by contrast,
have resulted from the almost accidental meetings of groups of talented individuals at certain times and
certain places. The ideas generated by these chance meetings had twofold consequence. Firstly, a corpus
of work would be produced which, in great part, remains as a concrete record of the events. Secondly, the
ideas would themselves be disseminated through many different channels of communication ± seeds that
often bore fruit in contexts far removed from their generation. rot all movements were exclusively
concerned with innovation. Surrealism, for instance, claimed to embody a kind of insight which can be
present in the art of any period. This claim has been generally accepted so that a sixteenth century
painting by Spranger or a mysterious photograph by Atget can legitimately be discussed in surrealist
terms. Briefly, then, the concepts of modern art are of many different (often fundamentally different)
kinds of resulted from the exposures of painters, sculptors and thinkers to the more complex phenomena
of the twentieth century, including our ever increasing knowledge of the thought and products of earlier
centuries. Different groups of artists would collaborate in trying to make sense of a rapidly changing
world of visual and spiritual experience. We should hardly be surprised if no one group succeeded
completely, but achievements, though relative, have been considerable. Landmarks have been established
± concrete statements of position which give a pattern to a situation which could easily have degenerated
into total chaos. Beyond this, new language tools have been created for those who follow ± semantic
systems which can provide a springboard for further explorations.Ê
Ê
The codifying of art is often criticized. Certainly one can understand that artists are wary of being pigeon-
holed since they are apt to think of themselves as individuals ± sometimes with good reason. The notion
of self-expression, however, no longer carries quite the weight it once did; objectivity has its defenders.
There is good reason to accept the ideas codified by artists and critics, over the past sixty years or so, as
having attained the status of independent existence ± an independence which is not without its own value.
The time factor is important here. As an art movement slips into temporal perspective, it ceases to be a
living organism ± becoming, rather, a fossil. This is not to say that it becomes useless or uninteresting.
Just as a scientist can reconstruct the life of a prehistoric environment from the messages codified into the
structure of a fossil, so can an artist decipher whole webs of intellectual and creative possibility from the
recorded structure of a µdead¶ art movement. The artist can match the creative patterns crystallized into
this structure against the potentials and possibilities of his own time. AS T.S. Eliot observed, no one starts
anything from scratch; however consciously you may try to live in the present, you are still involved with
a nexus of behaviour patterns bequeathed from the past. The original and creative person is not someone
who ignores these patterns, but someone who is able to translate and develop them so that they conform
more exactly to his ± and our ± present needs.Ê
Ê

Many of the concepts of modern art have been the product ofÊ
Ê
(1) ideas generated from planned deliberations between artists, painters and thinkers.Ê
(2) the dissemination of ideas through the state and its organizations.Ê
(3) accidental interactions among people blessed with creative muse.Ê
(4) patronage by the rich and powerful that supported art.Ê
(5) systematic investigation, codification and conventions.Ê
Ê
Ê

In the passage, the word µfossil¶ can be interpreted asÊ
Ê
(1) an art movement that has ceased to remain interesting or useful.Ê
(2) an analogy from the physical world to indicate a historic art movement.Ê
(3) an analogy from the physical world to indicate the barrenness of artistic creations in the past.Ê
(4) an embedded codification of pre-historic life.Ê
(5) an analogy from the physical world to indicate the passing of an ear associated with an art
movement.Ê
Ê
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In the passage, which of the following similarities between science and art may lead to erroneous
conclusions?Ê
Ê
(1) Both, in general, include a gamut of distinct but interconnecting activities.Ê
(2) Both have movements not necessarily concerned with innovation.Ê
(3) Both depend on collaborations between talented individuals.Ê
(4) Both involve abstract thought and dissemination of ideas.Ê
(5) Both reflect complex priorities o the modern world.Ê
Ê

The range of concepts and ideologies embodied in the art of the twentieth century is explained byÊ
Ê
(1) the existence of movements such as surrealism.Ê
(2) landmarks which give a pattern to the art history of the twentieth century.Ê
(3) new language tools which can be used for further explorations into new areas.Ê
(4) the fast changing world of perceptual and transcendental understanding.Ê
(5) the quick exchange of ideas and concepts enabled by efficient technology.Ê
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